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Phil Free
5 days ago
“Call it a reverse rainbow coalition. In truth, I doubt there’s ever been such a potent & sweeping metaphor for the moral rot of America’s bipartisan establishment.” Socialism or barbarism in the Big Apple -
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Socialism or barbarism in the Big Apple
The phrase “socialism or barbarism”, popularized by the German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, is by this point a cliche on parts of the political left.
https://open.substack.com/pub/lukewsavage/p/socialism-or-barbarism-in-new-york?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Keri Ferencz
5 days ago
Finally got around to reading this. Just when you think you’re finished crying about
@bluejays.com
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"Mamdani’s campaign has been both a fiercely disciplined effort in bread-and-butter left populism and a living testament to the boundless cosmopolitanism of New York City and all that makes multiracial democracy so precious and wonderful."
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Zohran Mamdani Provoked a Bipartisan Meltdown
Zohran Mamdani’s campaign represented a struggle for basic dignity and an affirmation of democratic potential. It was ceaselessly denounced by political and media elites from across the spectrum as so...
https://jacobin.com/2025/11/socialism-barbarism-mamdani-cuomo-trump
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Sometimes it really is socialism or barbarism. Zohran for Mayor.
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Socialism or barbarism in New York
The phrase “socialism or barbarism”, popularized by the German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, is by this point a cliche on parts of the political left.
https://www.lukewsavage.com/p/socialism-or-barbarism-in-new-york
5 days ago
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Mathew Kumar
7 days ago
This postseason made me a Blue Jays fan for life 💙
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Last night’s loss at the Skydome has left me feeling heavier than I think I’ve ever felt about a game. But the past month I've felt so much special warmth and love towards this city, and I know I'm not alone. Here's to our city and our Blue Jays.
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Game 7, the day after
On the Blue Jays' heartbreaking loss in the World Series and the meaning of a postseason run my city will never forget
https://www.lukewsavage.com/p/game-7-the-day-after
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It's over.
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The British Monarchy Will Not Survive Late Capitalism
And Harry and Meghan are proof
https://www.lukewsavage.com/p/the-british-monarchy-will-not-survive
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Allison Lirish Dean
23 days ago
At some point the Democratic Party will have to learn that its failing communication strategies are a reflection of the fact that it is an institution with almost no real infrastructure.
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Harvey J Kaye
24 days ago
TOM PAINE: THE FIRST "NO KINGS" REBEL w/Harvey J. Kaye — and No Economic Royalists Either! 🇺🇸
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TOM PAINE: THE FIRST "NO KINGS" REBEL (w/Harvey J. Kaye)
YouTube video by The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qSxL68pnAfA
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The liberal obsession with means-testing is both dogmatic and dishonest
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"Wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus"
The liberal obsession with means-testing is both dogmatic and dishonest
https://www.lukewsavage.com/p/wealthy-new-yorkers-who-take-the
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Pitchfork Economics
26 days ago
What did “free trade” really do for North America? Journalist and author
@lukewsavage.bsky.social
says it made both countries more unequal —empowering corporations while weakening workers and democracy. 🎧 Episode 5 of our Trade series is live ➡️
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The liberal obsession with means-testing is both dogmatic and dishonest
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"Wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus"
The liberal obsession with means-testing is both dogmatic and dishonest
https://www.lukewsavage.com/p/wealthy-new-yorkers-who-take-the
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Adrian Harewood
about 1 month ago
LISTEN: A
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Conversation Recorded Live @ Union Local 613 w/
@lukewsavage.bsky.social
- “Living in the Age of
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#AI
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#Genocide
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Luke Savage - Living in the age of Fascism, A.I. and Genocide (Live from Union 613)
Podcast Episode · In Bed with the Elephant · 2025-10-09 · 55m
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/in-bed-with-the-elephant/id1807424900?i=1000730933447
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Kamala Harris's Campaign Memoir is a Tour-de-Force of Democratic Delusion
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Kamala Harris's Campaign Memoir is a Tour-de-Force of Democratic Delusion
This past week I’ve been taking in Kamala Harris’s campaign memoir through various reviews.
https://www.lukewsavage.com/p/kamala-harriss-campaign-memoir-is
about 1 month ago
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Really important piece
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Forged KGB Documents Used to Smear Journalist in Parliament | The Walrus
Ex-MP Chris Alexander accused David Pugliese of being a Russian spy. Forensic experts now say the evidence was fabricated
https://thewalrus.ca/a-veteran-reporter-was-branded-as-a-russian-spy-the-proof-didnt-hold-up/
about 1 month ago
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Never done podcasting like this before, but turns out it rocks. Special thanks to
@caradrianh.bsky.social
, my new favourite interviewer and to everyone who came out. Our convo will be up soon here.
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about 1 month ago
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Press Forward (Canada)
about 1 month ago
The Future of Independent Media Summit kicks off THIS FRIDAY with a live taping of
@ricochetmedia.bsky.social
's podcast, In Bed with the Elephant, hosted by
@caradrianh.bsky.social
featuring ✨special guest
@lukewsavage.bsky.social
!✨ Tickets here:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-future...
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If you happen to be in Ottawa this Friday, I'll be doing a live show with Adrian Harewood — host of the excellent In Bed with the Elephant podcast to launch this year's Future of Independent Media Summit. Hope to see you there!
www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-future...
about 1 month ago
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My IRL friends call me Chris
about 1 month ago
"Since the Trump era began, there has been a glaring contradiction at the heart of the rhetoric deployed against him by mainstream Democrats," writes
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In a long line of politically inept and morally compromised leaders, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are losers without peer
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If this is opposition, what would surrender look like?
In a long line of inept, morally-compromised Democratic leaders, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are peerless
https://www.lukewsavage.com/p/if-this-is-opposition-what-would
about 1 month ago
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Phil Free
about 1 month ago
“… Abundance is a middlebrow airport book that’s been elevated more because it’s ideas are useful to the corporatist side of an intra-liberal factional fight than because they are intellectually rich or analytically sound.” -
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The Abundance faction doesn't understand Chinese economic development
On a recent episode of the Bad Faith podcast, Briahna Gray hosted a particularly good discussion of Abundance, the new book by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson I wrote about at length back in March.
https://open.substack.com/pub/lukewsavage/p/the-abundance-faction-doesnt-understand?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Is Donald Trump a communist? With a little help from Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris, I explore a very important question:
www.lukewsavage.com/p/is-donald-...
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Is Donald Trump a Communist?
On the absurdities of liberal horseshoe theory
https://www.lukewsavage.com/p/is-donald-trump-a-communist
about 1 month ago
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Broadbent Institute
about 2 months ago
"The guiding ideal of Ed Broadbent’s public life was that liberal rights like freedom of speech and freedom of expression are necessary but insufficient guarantors of democratic equality," –
@lukewsavage.bsky.social
Ed Broadbent on free speech:
broadbentinstitute.ca/research/democratic-free-speech/
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Inspired by Cass Sunstein's recent musings on Star Wars and Henry Kissinger: a piece on his unbelievably flimsy case for liberalism.
www.lukewsavage.com/p/in-defence...
about 2 months ago
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Elite liberals are determined to learn absolutely nothing
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Perhaps Democracy Needs Stronger Guardrails Than Corporate Self-Interest
Perhaps it was always inevitable that one of the biggest political flashpoints of the Trump era would involve late night entertainment.
https://www.lukewsavage.com/p/perhaps-democracy-needs-stronger
about 2 months ago
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Inspired by Cass Sunstein's recent musings on Star Wars and Henry Kissinger: a piece on his unbelievably flimsy case for liberalism.
www.lukewsavage.com/p/in-defence...
about 2 months ago
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My IRL friends call me Chris
about 2 months ago
"...the whole episode merely underscores how tenuous even the most basic democratic values really are when the ultimate determinant — in either direction — amounts to the self-interest of private corporations."
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Elite liberals are determined to learn absolutely nothing
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Perhaps Democracy Needs Stronger Guardrails Than Corporate Self-Interest
Perhaps it was always inevitable that one of the biggest political flashpoints of the Trump era would involve late night entertainment.
https://www.lukewsavage.com/p/perhaps-democracy-needs-stronger
about 2 months ago
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Harbinger Media Network
about 2 months ago
On a new episode of 🍎THE ORCHARDCAST🍎
@readtheorchard.org
chard.org
sits down with
@lukewsavage.bsky.social
to discuss Canada's prime minister in theory and practice in a conversation exploring The Carney Doctrine.
www.readtheorchard.org/p/the-carney...
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Phil Free
about 2 months ago
“This is why liberalism is the perfect ideology for capitalism. It demolishes those taboos that restrain expansion. Even the finest talk about internationalism opens markets for the powerful.” Technology & Empire -
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Technology and Empire
On the conservative intellectual who improbably became an inspiration to Canada's left
https://open.substack.com/pub/lukewsavage/p/technology-and-empire?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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A new documentary about Leni Riefenstahl brings new archival evidence to bear against her longstanding denials of closeness to the Nazi regime.
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Fascinating Fascism
On the artistic and moral cowardice of Leni Riefenstahl
https://www.lukewsavage.com/p/fascinating-fascism
about 2 months ago
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This was so much fun
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2 months ago
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My IRL friends call me Chris
2 months ago
"In the 21st century, centrist politics has supplied us with a never-ending stream of sentient press releases who are congenitally incapable of conveying even the slightest trace of authenticity or humanity. Sir Keir, somehow, leaves every one of them in the dust." 😂
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Jared Holt
2 months ago
Episode art for next week's podcast featuring
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In their fruitless quest to outflank the far-right, elite liberals on both sides of the Atlantic are increasingly indistinguishable from the very thing they claim to be a bulwark against
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The age of post-liberalism is finally here
In their fruitless quest to outflank the far-right, elite liberals on both sides of the Atlantic are increasingly indistinguishable from the very thing they claim to be a bulwark against
https://www.lukewsavage.com/p/the-age-of-post-liberalism-is-finally
2 months ago
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Luke LeBrun
2 months ago
Every PressProgress article carries this union bug because our newsroom is 100% unionized with secure, good-paying, full-time journalism jobs You can be a union job creator too by becoming a PressProgress member and supporting unionized journalism jobs:
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Phil Free
2 months ago
“When someone says ‘the economy’ in a political debate or conversation, they almost invariably mean the one that currently exists around us, without any sense that the thing they’re referring to is a political institution at all.” -
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Economics as politics
A case study in the radical implications of everyday political language
https://open.substack.com/pub/lukewsavage/p/economics-as-politics?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Broadbent Institute
2 months ago
10,000 Air Canada flight attendants proved what Ed Broadbent argued for in 1969: democracy is incomplete until it reaches the workplace.
@lukewsavage.bsky.social
reflects on industrial democracy in commentary on Ed's landmark 1969 speech:
broadbentinstitute.ca/research/industrial-democracy-action/
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Industrial Democracy: A Proposal for Action - Broadbent Institute
The trade unions are such a progressive force; their victories over the irresponsible concentration of power in our economic system belong to all Canadians. We must, therefore, support the trade union...
https://broadbentinstitute.ca/research/industrial-democracy-action/
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The Financial Times recommends my recent Substack piece on Matt Yglesias. What are you waiting for?
3 months ago
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My IRL friends call me Chris
3 months ago
This was a win for all workers in Canada.
#CdnPoli
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I’m back in the Star today with a new piece on how striking Air Canada flight attendants successfully called Ottawa's bluff — and set a potentially significant precedent in industrial relations that may soon have important political implications as well:
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The Air Canada strike wasn’t just a win for workers. It was also a wrench in Mark Carney’s plans
Workers at Air Canada won by simply refusing to abide by the Liberals' approach to labour.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/the-air-canada-strike-wasnt-just-a-win-for-workers-it-was-also-a-wrench/article_723e12c5-a225-4565-b044-206eeef18c49.html
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I regret to inform you all that I have written about pundits yet again
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The Agony and the Ecstasy of Matt Yglesias
Over the past two decades, the perverse incentive structures of America’s elite media have caused a new species of pundit to rise from the Beltway’s primordial ooze, at once less insightful and infini...
https://www.lukewsavage.com/p/the-agony-and-the-ecstasy-of-matt
3 months ago
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I have a new piece out for the Toronto Star today on how the Carney Liberals ran on public investment and nation-building and have swung immediately to the right. Among other things, Canada may soon experience the most sweeping austerity program it's seen in decades.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Mark Carney won on a promise of strong but fair Canada. This is how he is betraying that vision
The Carney government is repeating the mistakes of Paul Martin and Stephen Harper.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/mark-carney-won-on-a-promise-of-strong-but-fair-canada-this-is-how-he/article_4d53c228-bf60-411d-b6e3-be93669eba8e.html
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Pure guesswork by me but this is the sort of headline I think a Buttigieg government would be getting after 4 months in power.
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For The Baffler, I dive into Mark Carney's bestselling 2021 book Value(s) and the intensely orthodox view of political economy buried beneath its various layers of intellectual adornment.
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Sara Cimetta
3 months ago
“Another round of deregulation and pro-corporate policy-making, it hardly needs saying, won’t lower rents or shorten hospital wait times, just as gutting an already underfunded public sector will not magically spur growth or make our democratic institutions stronger.”
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Fruitless
3 months ago
NEW EPISODE OF FRUITLESS! I was joined by
@lukewsavage.bsky.social
to talk about the state of Resistance liberalism under Trump's second administration. It was a really fun conversation, available wherever you get your podcasts.
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Richie Assaly
3 months ago
"The Liberal practice of campaigning on the left then governing from the right is, by now, a hallowed Canadian tradition worthy of its own Heritage Minute." --
@lukewsavage.bsky.social
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Mark Carney won on a promise of strong but fair Canada. This is how he is betraying that vision
The Carney government is repeating the mistakes of Paul Martin and Stephen Harper.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/mark-carney-won-on-a-promise-of-strong-but-fair-canada-this-is-how-he/article_4d53c228-bf60-411d-b6e3-be93669eba8e.html
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The Baffler
3 months ago
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney thinks we can still achieve a more ethical form of capitalism. As
@lukewsavage.bsky.social
points out, that’s nothing we haven’t heard a million times before.
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Pity the Technocrat | Luke Savage
Canada’s Mark Carney wants to rejuvenate technocratic centrism. How many times do we have to say that’s a stupid idea?
https://thebaffler.com/latest/pity-the-technocrat-savage
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National Newswatch
3 months ago
Mark Carney won on a promise of strong but fair Canada. This is how he is betraying that vision,
@lukewsavage.bsky.social
writes.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Mark Carney won on a promise of strong but fair Canada. This is how he is betraying that vision
The Carney government is repeating the mistakes of Paul Martin and Stephen Harper.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/mark-carney-won-on-a-promise-of-strong-but-fair-canada-this-is-how-he/article_4d53c228-bf60-411d-b6e3-be93669eba8e.html
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